Primarily it's the building and repair of classic wood & canvas canoes, and the making of premium canoe paddles. I also do custom boat building, composite fabrication, and special projects. A growing passion of mine is the making of classical guitars, I'll post about that, too.

I want to be able to share with my clients the progress of their commissioned work. Later I started thinking that there might be other people who are interested in what goes on inside a wooden canoe shop operated by an artist and a recovering teacher.

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

While I was in the mode of bending wood for the bindings of the $100 Challenge guitar, I decided that it was time to bend the rest of the sides for the viola da Gamba. I'll let them sit for awhile before doing the fine joining and gluing. All those clamps are simply holding them in place.